text: Back Weight-Training Moves That Boost Metabolism Starting as early as your 20s and throughout your 30s, you'll naturally start to lose muscle -- and gain fat at a rate of about 2 percent per decade, especially if you have a sedentary job or lifestyle. This subtle muscle-to-fat ratio change can make it tougher to maintain your ideal weight as time goes on. But weight training can help -- no matter what your age. "Each pound of muscle you add through weight training burns as much as 50 calories more a day, even when you're at rest," says James Orvis, a certified personal trainer and author of Weight Training Workouts That Work. "So if you put on 10 pounds of muscle through weight training, you're going to increase your metabolism by 500 calories a day, even if you're just sitting at your desk." But don't think of those 10 pounds as 10 extra pounds. On the contrary, "If you're overweight, you'll probably lose weight through weight training," he says. "If you're of normal weight to begin with, the scale may not budge, but you'll be more compact as you gain muscle mass, since fat takes up to five times more volume than muscle." Reaping the rewards of weight training doesn't take much time. Mr. Orvis recommends working out with weights two or three times a week, every other day, for 20 minutes. "After about three months you should start to see dramatic results in your physical appearance and feel better," he says. Where to begin? Talk to your doctor before starting any exercise program. Mr. Orvis offers the following basic weight-training exercises that use only body weight or dumbbells to work the largest, calorie-incinerating muscle groups of the body. Stationary lunges This weight-training move uses body weight initially to target the muscles of the thigh, butt and hamstrings. "As you get more comfortable with it, add a dumbbell (3 to 5 pounds) in your free hand," says Mr. Orvis. Here's how: With one hand, hang onto a workout bench or a stable table. Take one step forward with your lead leg, like you're walking, your back leg should be comfortably flexed. Then slowly lower yourself down, keeping your back straight. The ultimate goal is to bend the knee of your lead leg to about a 90-degree angle, but, initially, bend it only as far as you feel comfortable doing so. Always make sure your knee stays behind your foot to prevent injury to your knees. Then, push straight up, stopping just before your front knee locks. After doing 5 to 10 repetitions on one leg, take a 30-second rest, then switch legs and work the other side. Dumbbell shoulder press This upper-body move targets shoulder and triceps (back of the arm) muscles. Start with 3- to 5-pound dumbbells, progressing by a pound as the exercise gets easier. Here's how: Standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and dumbbells at shoulder height, grasp dumbbells with palms facing forward. Slowly push dumbbells toward the ceiling, stopping before your elbows lock, then slowly lower the dumbbells to shoulder height. Strive for one or two sets of 10 reps each. Dumbbell bicep curls This exercise targets the biceps (the upper-arm muscles). Here's how: Sit in a chair with your back straight and feet firmly on the floor, dumbbells hanging by your sides. Curl both dumbbells simultaneously toward your shoulders, with your palms facing up. Then slowly lower the weight, rotating your palms so they're facing each other at the bottom of the exercise. Stop before your elbows lock. Do one or two sets of 8 to 12 reps each, using 3- to 5-pound dumbbells. Again, "increase the weight by a pound when the last few reps get easier," says Mr. Orvis. Crunches This exercise targets the abdominals using body weight alone. Here's how: Lie on your back with your feet on the floor. Place your hands across your chest and lift your torso 30 degrees. Try to avoid straining your neck muscles when you lift yourself upwards. Hold for a second, then slowly lower your torso to the ground, stopping just before your shoulders touch the floor. Repeat 15 times. Raised push-ups This exercise targets chest muscles, using body weight as resistance. Here's how: With your hands against the edge of a desk or table, raise your body until just before your elbows fully lock, then slowly lower your body to desk or table level. Repeat for 15 reps. Get ready Before you do these exercises, Mr. Orvis recommends warming up with 5 to 10 minutes of walking, then doing a few reps of the exercises you'll do that day. "Always cool down afterward with 5 to 10 minutes of stretching," says Mr. Orvis.


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Senator: Police have suspect in ricin mailing
WASHINGTON — Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing.
Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation being led by Capitol Police and the FBI after tests indicated that a letter mailed to the Mississippi Republican's Washington office contained the potentially deadly toxin. The letter was intercepted at a Senate mail facility in Prince George's County, Md., just outside Washington, said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of the Senate's Democratic leadership.
The letter's discovery shook the U.S. Capitol, where several events were canceled Tuesday in response to Monday's Boston bombing that killed three people, injured more than 170 and ignited fresh fears of terrorism. There was no evidence of a connection between the two events.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said initial field tests on the substance produced mixed results and it was undergoing further analysis at a laboratory. Only after that testing could a determination be made about whether the substance was ricin, Bresson said.
Capitol Police spokesman Shennell S. Antrobus said police were notified that the mail facility had received "an envelope containing a white granular substance."
"The envelope was immediately quarantined by the facility's personnel and USCP HAZMAT responded to the scene," Antrobus said. "Preliminary tests indicate the substance found was ricin. The material is being forwarded to an accredited laboratory for further analysis."
One congressional official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation wasn't concluded, said evidence of ricin appeared on two preliminary field tests.
Antrobus said operations at the Capitol complex had not been affected by the investigation.
Terrance Gainer, the Senate's sergeant-at-arms, said the envelope bore a Memphis, Tenn., postmark but had no return address or suspicious markings.
Mail from a broad swath of northern Mississippi, including the Tupelo, Oxford and Memphis suburbs in DeSoto County and the northern part of the Mississippi Delta region, is processed and postmarked in Memphis, according to a Postal Service map. The Memphis center also processes mail for residents of Western parts of Tennessee and eastern Arkansas.
Gainer told Senate offices there is "no indication that there are other suspect mailings."
But in an email to Senate offices, he urged caution and said the mail facility where the initial tests were performed will be closed for a few days while the investigation continues.
"Our primary concern right now is the safety of our employees, the safety of our customers and the safety of the U.S. mail," Postal Service spokeswoman Patricia Licata said.
She said the agency is working with health and law enforcement officials but didn't answer a question about whether any employee had been exposed to the substance found on the letter.
Among senators there was a mix of apprehension and appreciation that security protocols — put into place after anthrax mail attacks following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — seemed to work.
The 2001 anthrax-laced letters appeared in post offices, newsrooms and the offices of then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Two Senate office buildings were closed during that investigation. Overall, five people died and 17 others became ill. The FBI attributed the attack to a government scientist who committed suicide in 2008.
"Luckily, this was discovered at the processing center off premises," Durbin said. He said all mail to senators is "roasted, toasted, sliced and opened" before it ever gets to them.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said it was clear the revised mail screening system had worked as it should.
"It was caught in a way that did no damage, so I'm not obsessively concerned," Levin said.
Sen. Jeff Flake called the letter "a big concern, obviously, for all of us." The Arizona Republican described senators as "very anxious to get more details."
Wicker was appointed to the Senate in 2007 before winning a full term last year. He previously was a House member for 12 years. He is viewed as a solid conservative.
Milt Leitenberg, a University of Maryland bioterrorism expert, said ricin is a poison derived from the same bean that makes castor oil. According to a Homeland Security Department handbook, ricin is deadliest when inhaled. It is not contagious, but there is no known antidote.
Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Andrew Miga, Seth Borenstein, Eric Tucker, Eileen Sullivan, Pete Yost and Pauline Jelinek in Washington and Emily Wagster Pettus and Jeff Amy in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.


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Leading in the polls, Newt Gingrich finds himself fielding questions about an ethics violation investigation in the 90s.
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Are Republicans REALLY thinking about voting for this guy?
It sure does matter today! He used money to further his political gain and then lied about it. Do you really think he is telling the truth about the money he's made lobbying? I sure don't.
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In an emotional interview, Jack Hanna talks to Anderson Cooper about the man responsible for turning loose his menagerie of exotic animals before committing suicide.
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Hopefully, this sad tragedy can be an example of why people (usually the arrogant wealthy) should not have in any way wild/exotic animals as pets/trophies. There are even some people who have exotic animals for the sole purpose of having wealthy hunters go on a "caged" hunt for wild animals for trophies.
Did the police know about the release of the wild animals before hand? Then the local zoo or some agency should have had strong tranquilizing guns to at least stop the killing of wild animals. Sadly, there probably wasn't time.
There should be more education about the conservation/protection and dangers of wild animals in school. Hopefully, Jack Hannah and other trued animal lovers can educate law makers as well as children.
That's what a true animal lover is. Someone who respects and takes care of animals and tries to save the wild and endangered and extinct animals that greatly effect our planet in ways that aren't seen with the naked eye.
Thank you for covering this truly sad story. I hope this will call the attention needed to put a stop to privately owned exotic animals, not just in Ohio, but other states as well. My heart goes out to these wonderful creatures who suffer at the hands of irresponsible humans. Anderson, please keep the attention on this story in the weeks to come. It would so great to see some resulting legislation that would put a stop to the buying of exotic animals. Thanks so much for making time on your show to call attention to plights of animals. It is much appreciated.
How is it that Ohio has breed specific legislation aka "pitbull ban" but somehow having tigers, lions, bears..no that's not dangerous?
When will humans come to understand that possession does not equate love; unless it's a dog or domesticated house cat, there is no reason any human should keep in a cage an animal that belongs in the wild.
the problem is poor regulation. i'm not advocating a ban. some poor kid won't get a hedgehog for christmas because some irresponsible person let a tiger loose somewhere. the laws are written and enforced poorly by persons ignorant to the care of animals.
This didn't have to happen.
I am disgusted by the actions that were taken to kill so many wild animals. I understand this occured in darkness, but i don't understand why no one took into account that these wild animals may need more than the average tranquilizer to take them down. I don't mean to imply insensitivity, but how many of these animals were on an endangered list? The most important question we need to ask is; how did this happen? Who was this person? Is anyone going to be held accountable? The animals came from somewhere!
Hopefully our legislators in Ohio will change the laws in Ohio so no one can buy or own these kinds of animals. They are called wild animals not pets and they belong in the wild in the countries that have those kind of animals. No one should be allowed to sell them to private owners. It is a shame what happened, but it is irresponsible owners that create this mess. Time for this state to wake up and smell the carnage and change the laws.
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Franklin Pierce
14th president (1853-1857)
Background/Early Life
• Franklin Pierce grew up in New Hampshire, where his father was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and governor.
• Pierce attended Bowdoin College in Maine at the same time as Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• Pierce served in the House of Representatives and the Senate before serving in the Mexican-American War. After the war he became a well-known lawyer in New Hampshire.
• Pierce was always very outgoing, and after becoming a politician he struggled with drinking. For a time after he was married he gave up alcohol, but turned to it again after tragedies in his life.
• The Pierces had three children; two died in early childhood and the third was killed in a train accident shortly before Pierce's inauguration.
How he defined the office
• Pierce was elected to the presidency in part because of his anonymity. The country — as well as his political party — were divided, and Pierce became a candidate most could agree on.
• Pierce was a pro-slavery Northerner, opposed to the abolitionist movement, and this shaped the decisions he made as president.
• Pierce's original appeal as a candidate faded quickly with some of his Cabinet appointments, including Jefferson Davis as secretary of war.
Successes and failures
• While in office Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was not just the most notable legislation of his presidency, but one of the most notable in American history. The act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which banned slavery north of the 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude line. Since the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the territory, both sides of the issue moved into the area, leading to violence and the nickname "Bleeding Kansas." Intended to help settle the debate over slavery, the act accelerated tensions between the North and South.
• Pierce sent Sen. James Gadsden to negotiate with Mexico what came to be known as the Gadsden Purchase. The United States paid Mexico $15 million for land that is now the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, settling border disputes left over from the Mexican-American War. The Gadsden Purchase set the final boundaries of the continental United States.
• Though Pierce wanted a second term, he was not nominated by his party. He was a very unpopular former president until his death in 1869.
notable quote
• "You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength." — from his inaugural address March 4, 1853, two months after the death of his 12-year-old son.


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Ventilation Standards at Work
There was a time when it seemed unlikely that Wisconsin housing could be too tight, but times have changed.
After a full-scale review of our weatherization measures in 2004,Wisconsin decided to implement some changes. In July 2005,Wisconsin's Home Energy Plus Weatherization program began to move away from a building tightness guideline to a ventilation standard in evaluating its weatherization efforts.This change in our procedures has really been a change of mind-set. For almost 20 years,Wisconsin had used calculations based loosely on ASHRAE standards to set tightness limitations for weatherized homes.
In practical terms, these tightness limitations didn't give us enough flexibility to deal with the buildings and with our customers. Some houses that were below the guidelines before weatherization got virtually no sealing work—even when it was needed to maintain the intended air barrier between the house and the outside. Other houses with high occupancy rates needed help to ensure that there was enough fresh air to go around.
The weatherization program in Wisconsin had long recognized and addressed the problem of backdrafting appliances in tighter homes. But tight homes also pose other indoor air problems— primarily moisture and pollutants. These problems led the State of Wisconsin Home Energy Plus Weatherization program and its training and technical assistance subcontractor, the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC), to consider incorporating proper ventilation in the package of weatherization services. We have made the change to a ventilation standard in two stages. In 2004,Wisconsin started to use ASHRAE Standard 62.1 to calculate building tightness and ventilation requirements. In 2005,Wisconsin adopted the ventilation standards outlined in the revised ASHRAE Standard 62.2, without building tightness requirements.
Like many parts of the northern Midwest, Wisconsin has a mixed climate. Heating degree-days vary from more than 9,000 in the north to around 7,000 in the south. Summers can be hot and very humid. Our shoulder seasons—spring and fall—can combine the extreme conditions of both winter and summer.
Can Housing Be Too Tight?
Though significant temperature differentials between the inside and the outside intensify the stack effect on the buildings, our housing stock is generally tighter than buildings in more moderate climates. Wisconsin's average preweatherization building leakage measurement is around 2,400 CFM50. Unfortunately, many of these leaks are unplanned exfiltration, typically through bypasses in the attic. Not only do these bypasses contribute to higher heating costs, but they can also cause severe ice dams on roof eaves.
There was a time when it seemed unlikely that low-income housing stock could ever be too tight. Things have changed—both air sealing technology and the housing stock. In many parts of Wisconsin, 1970s-era buildings now make up part of the low-income occupied- housing stock.These homes were built to tighter standards than older homes,but they were made with materials that have not held up as well as wood does to air movement and moisture.Par- ticleboard, for example, doesn't allow for the natural migration of air and doesn't have the moisture-carrying capacity of wood. Many tight homes, built with these less-forgiving materials, are teetering on the edge of moisture overload and building failure. Most of these homes do have the potential to survive if the right steps are taken in time.
While Wisconsin's Weatherization program has funded the installation of exhaust ventilation as an allowable repair measure for about 20 years, fans were sized primarily by code requirements—a one size fits all approach.We had no system for conducting a field assessment or for properly sizing a building's ventilation needs.Even when a building has existing exhaust ventilation—about half of our housing stock has at least a bath exhaust fan—most of the fans our inspectors find are noisy and do not operate at their rated CFM air capacity.This prompted us to look for a more sophisticated approach to size ventilation.
We found that the same standard we used in part to determine building tightness—ASHRAE 62—might serve as a field tool to calculate the amount of ventilation needed in buildings. Our first step, taken in 2004,was to add the ventilation calculation to our building tightness assessment. At that time Wisconsin was using ZipTestPro software, available from WX Ware Diagnostics, to calculate building tightness (the BTL— building tightness limit—program).We moved to the slightly more sophisticated BTLa program (building tightness limitadvanced) to add the ventilation calculation. Based on ASHRAE 62.1, if a building comes in below the BTLa limit, the ventilation requirements are calculated in cubic feet per minute.
Investing in health and safety and the potential for increased building durability— but without direct energy savings— is a difficult step for a publicly funded weatherization program. But the problems of tight houses pose a risk to the health of the occupants, and the Home Energy Plus Weatherization program managers were unwilling to ignore the issue. It was a gutsy decision on the part of the program's senior managers— Steven Tyron, Susan Brown, and Carl Saueressig. But it signaled to all concerned that we cared as much about our customers' health as we did about the bottom line of energy savings.
Standard Diagnostic Procedures
Producing healthy weatherized homes requires more than added ventilation. It requires a standard package of diagnostic procedures. Using blower door-guided sealing and zone diagnostics has the potential to overtighten buildings. This is not a bad thing, unless weatherization fails to address the other systems at work in a building. To address the potential for overtightening the building, and to ensure combustion appliance safety and building integrity,Wisconsin put several diagnostic procedures in place in 2004. To assess building tightness and ventilation needs, we moved to ZipTest Pro BTLa (building tightness limits-advanced, as mentioned earlier).To make sure that buildings are not excessively depressurized—which might cause combustion, moisture, and other pollutant problems— we test every building for depressurization limits (DTL).We use this calculation to give our installers on-site guidelines. The depressurization limits let them know when the building needs pressure relief—a reduction in the existing exhaust ventilation or added makeup air, or, more likely, modifications to the existing mechanical equipment. Worstcase draft procedures are performed on every building with atmospheric combustion appliances.
While we have performed building tightness limits and worst-case draft procedures for years, integrating depressurization limits and ventilation requirements can be difficult.The building changes as it is weatherized.A leaky building with atmospheric combustion appliances could start out with an exhaust limit of over 300 CFM and drop to half of that when the building is sealed. The maximum depressurization limits for pressure differentials and CFM50 will also change when the building characteristics or the mechanical systems change.These moving targets force an inspector or installer to model for an end state condition for the building.
During weatherization, our crews are changing a building's design as they work. When the work is completed, they look at the new design and check to make sure that it is safe and energy efficient. If it is, that's great. But when final diagnostic testing indicates that additional work is necessary, this creates budgetary and scheduling problems.The job can't be closed until the additional work is done.
One approach to working around this issue is to model or estimate what the building's characteristics will be upon completion, or end state of weatherization work. Inspectors already routinely forecast how new insulation levels will affect a home, but an educated estimate of the final CFM50 and CFM of exhaust ventilation is also clearly needed. The required ventilation depends on this final CFM50 value. By estimating the final CFM50 leakage and ventilation requirements, inspectors can decide what work needs to be completed before the crews finish their work. For example, when a building in its modeled and projected end state will require ventilation, crews may opt not to insulate the attic until an exhaust fan is installed. Similarly, if the total CFM amount of exhaust appliances is likely to increase building depressurization, some atmospherically vented appliance may need to be changed out.
Wisconsin's program is no different publicly funded weatherization programs in that we want to weatherize as many homes as possible.Any new prfrom other ocedure that alters work flow will affect production. In 2004 we thought we were delivering a sensible protocol for adding ventilation,but we heard rumbling from our provider network almost immediately. Program management had to decide how to ensure proper pre- and posttesting while delivering adequate ventilation. Since weatherization crews must know the rate of initial building leakage (CFM50) to determine what ventilation systems should be installed, management needed to decide who completes the initial blower door test, and at what point in the work flow. Similarly, the building pressure differentials and worse-case draft test results may drive decisions on distribution system work and mechanical system replacements. From a work flow perspective, either the inspector needs to run the tests and determine the measures or the decisions on installations will get shuffled to installers, which will delay closing out the job.Having a lot of in-progress buildings complicates life for both state and local program administrators.
We went back to the drawing board within a month of implementing ventilation protocols to streamline procedures with production issues in mind, and to provide more information on ventilation options. Given the feedback from the providers, we took a serious look at ventilation systems and controllers that can be easily modified when all other work is completed.
Ventilation is calculated based on building size and on number of occupants. In Wisconsin,we needed to decide not only how to measure a building correctly, but also, and more importantly, what parts of the building to include. ASHRAE 62.1 uses a minimum of 0.35 ACH to determine a building tightness limit before ventilation is required. The big debate in Wisconsin was whether or not to include basements in the volume calculations. In a single-story house, including the basement essentially doubles the volume and cuts the number of air changes in half. This choice also affects the blower door testing setup of the building by determining when a basement door should be open or closed.
The purpose of ventilation is to provide acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ) in residential buildings. ASHRAE defines habitable and occupiable spaces in a building to help us to decide how to measure a building. In addition,we are concerned with the exchange between conditioned air and outdoor air. In Wisconsin, the heating system is usually located in the basement. We expect to find air infiltration through the basement foundation, providing a path for fresh air to enter a building when an exhaust-only ventilation system is used. Finally, the basement can be a source of contaminants that affect IAQ and this air does enter the habitable section of the building.
All of these factors helped us to decide that even unintentionally conditioned basements should be included in the calculations for the building to determine air leakage rates that, in turn, affect ventilation.
Another key factor in determining ventilation rate is the proper measurement of a building.As part of our training on using the BTLa software, training participants measured houses as a group activity. If there were five groups, inevitably there were five different sets of measurements. This reinforced the need to take a consistent approach in measuring areas, volumes, and heights.To estimate the amount of insulation needed for walls and attics, auditors use the outside dimensions of a building and generally round up. The big change for auditors was to use the inside measurements of the building, as described by ASHRAE, to determine floor area and volume. Story heights must include floor cavities, and the building height should include only the pressure boundary of the building. These dimensions are used to measure the quantity of air inside the building that needs to be ventilated.
Installing a ventilation systems can be a simple process—for example, installing a bathroom exhaust—or a highly complex process—for example, installing a balanced heat recovery ventilator (HRV) with its own distribution system. But even a simple exhaust fan installation can quickly become complicated. Key issues include sizing the fan, deciding where to install it, and deciding when in the work flow the fan should be installed. Our providers use a mix of their own installers and electricians for installation. Often the fan will be roughed in by the installers and connected by an electrician. It's important to consider whether an electrician needs to install a new circuit, or whether crews may already have insulated the attic.When the crews have already insulated the attic and a decision is made to install an exhaust fan for ventilation, all of the newly installed insulation must be moved out of the way. After the fan is installed, a crew will need to reinsulate the area around the new fan. This creates extra work and extra mess that can be avoided when decisions about ventilation are made before insulating.There may be other workflow obstacles based on local code.
We brought in HVAC consultant Joe Nagan to give our 21 providers ideas and options on ventilation systems. Nagan has worked very effectively with Wisconsin's Focus on Energy program's private contractors, primarily on new construction projects. He explained how different systems can be installed, and how they can be performancetested. Performance is important; we want the ventilation installed, and we also want it to perform as expected.Typically, based on Nagan's work, existing systems underperform at about 50% of the fan's rating, due to improperly sized ducting, poorly sealed ducts, and so on. Focusing on best practices in ducting equipment to the outside of the building helps to ensure an actual flow as high as 90%–95% of the fan's rating.
A larger obstacle to address was sizing systems to meet higher required ventilation rates.Thirty CFM is an easily attainable rate of ventilation with a single exhaust fan and the fan can be installed at the completion of weatherization with few complications. However the decision-making process at the end of weatherization becomes very complicated when, as a result of very good air sealing on a building, the required ventilation rate is above 100 CFM. Should the installation be multiple exhaust fans, or is a balanced HRV system the better choice? And maybe more importantly, who should make this determination? Crews in Wisconsin are very good at making decisions in the field about other measures, and about work that is accomplished in buildings that they have some control over, such as how to air seal cost effectively. But should these decisions about ventilation be left up to the crew to make? Adding ventilation requires the customer's input as well, because if the customer doesn't want it, or cannot complete routine maintenance, the ventilation system will fail.
With additional information and training, we found that our local providers were able to come up with their own action plans for incorporating ventilation into the weatherization mix. This included lots of experimentation with different products and installations. The people in the field who know how to treat buildings will always develop the best methods to accomplish the job.Our biggest task was to get everyone on the same page—and then get out of the way.
Piloting ASHRAE 62.2
Just as Wisconsin was developing the plans to implement ventilation procedures based on ASHRAE 62.1, the long-awaited, much-debated, 62.2 guidelines were adopted. There was good evidence that 62.2 would require lower ventilation rates, given the decrease in the CFM per person rate (15 CFM under natural conditions for 62.1 versus 7.5 CFM for 62.2). We wanted to determine the advantages, if any, of using 62.2 calculations. Given the steep learning curve on ventilation— toward consistent approaches to sizing and intermittent control strategies— we opted to pilot the new calculations in three provider areas, with diverse housing stock. The pilot was set up to test the 62.2 ventilation sizing requirements against the 62.1 calculations. We also wanted to know if providing ventilation would contribute to an unexpected combustion safety problem that could be created by depressurizing a building with exhaust ventilation.
To calculate this data,we used Rick Karg's ZipTest Pro2 software (WX Ware Diagnostics) and a spreadsheet developed by Karg that compared the results automatically. Karg's software has evolved over the last couple of years. Depending on the edition, the 62.1 calculations use one of two methods—Quadrature or Ecotope. The methods generate slightly different figures. The pilot provider agencies were allowed to use any of the three methods to provide ventilation in their units.
The anecdotal feedback from the pilot agencies was unambiguous. The ASHRAE 62.2 method was the easiest to work with and allowed the most flexibility. The average cost of installing a single exhaust fan with a controller in the study was about $530.
The data we received early in the study from the three providers gave us information on two areas that have the biggest impact on production. When ventilation is called for by each standard, the results using 62.2 had, on average, lower flow rates of required ventilation. The percentage of buildings requiring ventilation is higher when using the 62.2 standard. The Quadrature method of calculating ventilation and the Ecotope method provide similar results.
Based on this early data,Wisconsin made the decision to move forward and begin using the ASHRAE 62.2 standard to determine ventilation rates.We believe that the 62.2 standard allows providers to plan production more effectively. In most cases, simple ventilation systems utilizing lower flow rates with an exhaust fan will meet the requirement. Sizing systems for intermittent operation allows installers to adjust the timers and flow rates to meet the end state required rate of ventilation. The number of buildings that will need ventilation does increase, but auditors are better able to determine maximum rates, and to determine them earlier in the weatherization process.
Given the greater number of units needing ventilation,we wondered what effect ventilation would have on depressurization. To find out,we tracked final CFM50 blower door tests and compared them to the depressurization tightness limits. In early results,we found that ventilation as required by the 62.2 standard had no significant effect on depressurization in the building. In the buildings where we found excessive depressurization, the required ventilation by itself was not causing problems. In the buildings where we found potential excessive depressurization, the combined effect of all exhaust appliances caused that depressurization, and would have done so even had the required ventilation not been included.As mentioned earlier, the depressurization problems are most often solved by modifications to the existing mechanical equipment, including distribution sealing.
Final results of the Wisconsin study looked at 173 units of varying types (see Table 1). If the properties of all of the buildings in the study were averaged, this average building would have 1,900 ft2 of floor area with a volume of 14,900 cubic feet and would have 4.13 occupants.
The occurrence rate for required ventilation using 62.2 was 79% at an average rate of 30 CFM.There were no ventilation rates above 100 CFM for 62.2, but there were 19% above 100 CFM for 62.1.This is a considerable difference. It is much easier to site and design low flow systems than to site and design systems over 100 CFM. Lower ventilation rates also mean lower costs for the customer, both for electrical consumption and for heating the replacement air coming into the home as a result of exhaust ventilation.
Wisconsin's migration from a building tightness guideline to a ventilation standard has been gradual.When building tightness guidelines are based on ASHRAE 62.1, some houses may be tightened below 800 CFM50. Other houses will remain leakier based on their profile—the vertical area above grade—rather than on their footprint— the horizontal area at grade, which is utilized by 62.2. As mentioned earlier, the 62.1 guideline requires at least 15 CFM per occupant under natural conditions and 0.35 ACH.When the building falls below the building tightness level, and when the unventilated flow rate of the building is lower than acceptable, the solution is to add ventilation.
Using the 62.1 requirements, our average postweatherization ventilation rate was 71 CFM under winter conditions, with ventilation required in 46% of the buildings.The 62.2 guideline requires at least 7.5 CFM per occupant under natural conditions and 1 CFM/100 ft2 of floor area.When an inspector can run a blower test and properly measure the building, 62.2 allows an infiltration credit when it calculates ventilation. This credit applies when the natural ventilation rate is above 2 CFM/100 ft2 of floor area. Our average rate of ventilation in the 62.2 study was 30 CFM. The average final leakage rate of units in the study was 1,820 CFM50.
The newer standard allows weatherization agencies and crews to use either continuous or intermittent controls. When they have decided which type of control to use, they must next choose the proper control to operate the system. Different models of timer will provide options ranging from 5-minute cycles to 30-minute cycles. Other controls allow the flow rate of the exhaust fan to be adjusted to various levels. Other controls, such as dehumidistats,work well as a moisture source control, but do not guarantee the correct amount of run time to meet ventilation requirements. These controls give crews a lot of flexibility to set up ventilation systems properly, using an exhaust fan that is installed early in the production schedule.
Ventilation costs money to operate, and it does not save energy overall. In fact, the air moved by the ventilation system has to be conditioned, and that requires energy. Wisconsin is installing ventilation as a health and safety measure, not as an energy-saving measure. It's important for our customers, as well as our provider agency staff, to understand that.We also need to look at the entire building and the energy savings generated by the weatherization process, some of which cannot be achieved if we do not ventilate to ensure our customers' safety.
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WASHINGTON — A label that reads "gluten free" will now mean the same thing for all food, regardless of which kind you buy.
After more than a six-year delay, the Food and Drug Administration has set a new standard for labels that will make shopping easier for consumers on gluten-restricted diets. Until now, the term "gluten free" had not been regulated, and manufacturers made their own decisions about what it means.
Under an FDA rule announced Friday, products labeled "gluten free" still won't have to be technically free of wheat, rye and barley and their derivatives. But they will have to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten.
That amount is generally recognized by the medical community to be low enough so that most people who have celiac disease won't get sick if they eat it.
People who suffer from celiac disease don't absorb nutrients well and can get sick from the gluten found in wheat and other cereal grains. Other countries already have similar standards.
Celiac disease affects up to 3 million Americans. It causes abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea, and people who have it can suffer weight loss, fatigue, rashes and other long-term medical problems. Celiac is a diagnosed illness that is more severe than gluten sensitivity, which some people self-diagnose.
Only a very small number of people wouldn't be able to ingest the amount of gluten that will be allowed under the new rule, FDA officials said.
"Adherence to a gluten-free diet is the key to treating celiac disease, which can be very disruptive to everyday life," FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg said. "The FDA's new 'gluten-free' definition will help people with this condition make food choices with confidence and allow them to better manage their health."
The new FDA rule also would ensure that foods with the labels "no gluten," "free of gluten," and "without gluten" meet the definition. Manufacturers will have a year to comply, though the FDA urged companies to meet the definition sooner.
Ten years ago, most people had never heard of celiac disease. But awareness and diagnosis of the illness have exploded in recent years. It's not entirely clear why — some researchers say it was under-diagnosed; others say it's because people eat more processed wheat products like pastas and baked goods than in past decades, and those items use types of wheat that have a higher gluten content.
Many companies that market gluten-free foods already meet the standard. But Andrea Levario of the American Celiac Disease Alliance said the federal guidelines will cut down on painstaking shopping for those who suffer from celiac disease.
Levario said that wheat must be labeled on food packages but that barley and rye are often hidden ingredients in food. The standard will also ensure that companies can't label products "gluten free" even if they are cross-contaminated from other products made in the same manufacturing facility. She said shopping can be like "playing Russian roulette" for people who have celiac.
"This will eliminate confusion for the consumer and will cut down on calls to companies to try and determine whether their products are safe and gluten free," she said.
Michael Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods, said the rule originally proposed during the George W. Bush administration was delayed because the agency was evaluating what standard was correct.
"We wanted to do a careful scientific assessment of the data and the range of sensitivities," Taylor said.
Congress originally directed the FDA to set the standards in 2004 as part of a larger law that required food packaging to list major allergens. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., originally introduced a bill calling for the standards in 1999. She praised the FDA rules and called them "a long time coming."


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Every year for the last twenty-four years LACMA has held its annual Collectors Committee event, in which donors come together as a group to purchase works for LACMA's collection (something we've written about before). I've had the chance to attend a few of these now, and they're always fascinating. Here's the premise of the event: curators from various departments each present an artwork they'd like the museum to acquire. The members of the Collectors Committee get to see the objects installed in a gallery and hear the curators give presentations about the works—and then they vote on which objects LACMA will acquire, using a pool of funds created by their membership dues.
This year's event took place on Saturday, and the results are in: LACMA has acquired a monumental painting by Matta, Burn, Baby, Burn (L'escalade); and a collection of 117 African Kuba textiles from the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.
Burn, Baby, Burn is a massive painting—nearly ten feet tall by thirty-two feet wide. It was created in 1965–66 as a response to the Vietnam War and the Watts riots, and remained part of the artist's personal collection until his death in 2002. The mural-like painting draws the eye every which way; writing about the painting, curator of Latin American art Ilona Katzew said, "Like Picasso's Guernica (1937)—a work that Matta greatly admired—Burn, Baby, Burn is a bold indictment of the destructiveness of mankind and a manifesto for peace."
The collection of African textiles, from the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Kuba culture of the Democratic Republic of Congo, helps enhance an important area of the museum's collection. The 117 textiles and ceremonial skirts each feature unique geometric forms and rhythmic patterns, and were created collaboratively by both Kuba men and women. Within the culture these textiles were of the utmost prestige—traded as currency, given to kings as tribute, and used in ceremonial garb. In her presentation to the Collectors Committee on Saturday morning, curator Sharon Takeda told the story of twentieth-century missionaries who had come to the Congo offering the Kuba king a motorcycle as a gift, hoping to impress him with this magnificent feat of technology. The king paid the motorcycle no mind, but was captivated by the pattern of the tire tread left in the dirt, hoping to incorporate it into a textile pattern.
Since 1986 the Collectors Committee has made 159 acquisitions for the museum, including works by Benedetto Luti, Edvard Munch, George Bellows, Man Ray, and many more. Their support over the years has been essential to the growth of the museum's collections—all the more so in today's economy. Having just entered our collection two days ago, these new acquisitions aren't yet on view; we'll let you know as soon as they go up.


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In April 2002, the OECD launched a major project: "Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers". It was a collaborative project, to assist governments with designing and implementing teacher policies to improve teaching and learning in schools. The project concluded in June 2005 with the release of a publication, Teachers Matter, a comprehensive, international analysis of trends and developments in the teacher workforce in 25 countries around the world.
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Romney claims blind trust and Gingrich complains about the debate audience. Anderson Cooper is Keeping Them Honest.
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The next U.S. President will be Mitt Romney and the V.P. will be Rick Santorum. Signed, sealed, and delivered!
Romney and Gingrich want to bring Sharia law to this country. He thinks that the President should bring God to the debate for presidential race and go after hard earned women's' rights regarding their pregnancy. We have a constitution that protect women's rights. What other women's rights do they want to go after? Whatever suits them? The more these debates go on, the more the candidates have to show their real views on fundamental issues.
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Today in History: Dec. 28
Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 363rd day of 2012. There are three days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 28, 1912, San Francisco's Municipal Railway began operations with Mayor James Rolph Jr. at the controls of Streetcar No. 1 as 50,000 spectators looked on.
On this date:
In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn't officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.)
In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.
In 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va.
In 1897, the play "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.
In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published "A Neglected Anniversary," a facetious, as well as fictitious, essay by H.L. Mencken recounting the history of bathtubs in America.
In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.
In 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play "Night of the Iguana" opened on Broadway. Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.
In 1972, Kim Il Sung, the premier of North Korea, was named the country's president under a new constitution.
In 1982, Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.
In 1987, a mass killing came to light as the bodies of 14 relatives of Ronald Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, Ark., after Simmons shot and killed two other people in Russellville. (Simmons was executed in 1990.)
Ten years ago: The U.N. nuclear watchdog decided to pull its inspectors out of North Korea by New Year's Eve, a step demanded by the North. Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance won a landslide victory in Kenyan elections, breaking the ruling party's 39-year grip on power.
Five years ago: President George W. Bush used a "pocket veto" to reject a sweeping defense bill because he objected to a provision that would have exposed the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era. Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest as the country's army tried to quell a frenzy of rioting in the wake of her assassination. Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years' forced labor in Chad for allegedly trying to kidnap 103 children were transferred to French custody. (The workers were later pardoned by Chad's president and set free.) David Letterman's production company reached an interim agreement with the Writers Guild allowing his talk show as well as Craig Ferguson's to return to the air.
One year ago: North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, escorted his father's hearse in an elaborate state funeral, bowing somberly and saluting in front of tens of thousands of citizens who wailed and stamped their feet in grief for Kim Jong Il. Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq. Kaye Stevens, a singer and actress who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," died in The Villages, Fla., at age 79.
Today's Birthdays: Comic book creator Stan Lee is 90. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 83. Actor Martin Milner is 81. Actress Nichelle Nichols is 80. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 78. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 74. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is 68. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is 66. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 66. Actor Denzel Washington is 58. Country singer Joe Diffie is 54. Country musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 54. Actor Chad McQueen is 52. Country singer-musician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 52. Actor Malcolm Gets is 48. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 43. Comedian Seth Meyers is 39. Actor Brendan Hines is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 34. Actress Sienna Miller is 31. Actor Thomas Dekker is 25. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 23. Pop singer David Archuleta (TV: "American Idol") is 22.
Thought for Today: "If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." — Michael Crichton (KRY'-tuhn), American author (1942-2008).


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Yesterday I posted a small selection of photos that marked important/interesting events that took place in the first half of 2012, and here is a selection from the last six months.
July. Processing of the entomological material collected in Gorongosa takes up most of the month. Although I spend most of July looking through the microscope, to keep my camera from rusting I document the biodiversity of life in Estabrook Woods outside of Boston. Ambush bugs make a fascinating subject: they are not only pretty, they also try to talk to people.
August. I have the good fortune to visit, albeit very briefly, the Galapagos Islands as a leader of a trip organized by the Harvard Natural History Museum. All the icons were there: flightless cormorants, Darwin's finches, Blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises and, most importantly, the marine iguanas. I make a promise to myself to come back and do a proper study of the Galapagos Nesoecia katydids, which, I am convinced, will reveal a pattern of speciation similar to that seen in other groups at the archipelago. Back home very sad news: our sweet, innocent Max has an enormous tumor in his head. He undergoes a successful surgery, and a radiation and chemotherapy treatment.
September. Praying mantids are invading my garden! One night I step on the deck and a huge Chinese mantis hits me on the head.
October. Maxi has recovered enough from his brain surgery so that we can take him again on long walks in the Estabrook Woods. I giggle like a little girl when on one of our walks I discover a bunch of beautiful oil beetles – I never expected to find them there.
November. Insect activity is winding down, and the arrival of winter moths marks the beginning of a largely lifeless season. But these interesting insects brighten the otherwise gloomy time of year – males come in the hundreds to the lights of our house around Thanksgiving, while the stubby, flightless females are laying eggs in the bark of our maples.
December. This year I received the best Christmas gift ever: Kristin commissioned from Canadian artist Sharlena Wood a painting based on my photo of a pair of Gorongosa pygmy chameleons. It is a gorgeous and, I am sure, the world's only piece of art featuring this endemic and enigmatic Mozambican animal. Thanks K!


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Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's camp yesterday released a policy statement on America's space program. The statement doesn't really lay out any concrete details on what Romney's plans for NASA would be if he is elected, other than to say that President Obama "has failed to deliver a coherent policy for human space exploration and space security" and that Romney would do it way better. Unfortunately, this merely adds Romney to the end of a long line of politicians stretching back to the 1970s who want to use NASA as political capital rather than actually advance America's space program, confounding an agency which does its best work when it is given a task and is then left alone to finish it.
From the space race to the Space Shuttle
Make no mistake: the "Space Race" of the late 1950s and 1960s was primarily a political and military exercise between the United States and the Soviet Union, though Kennedy's powerful rhetoric hit all the right notes to add a deeply human motivation to the endeavor—it's in our nature, he said, to be explorers, and if we don't get to the Moon first, then we will get there last. It's almost a foregone conclusion that his assassination just 14 months after his famous speech at Rice University helped ensure that NASA and the Moon would remain a national priority, if for no other reason than because his successor, the wily Lyndon B. Johnson, was one of the most skilled political operators Washington has ever known, and he knew that tampering with Kennedy's legacy would destroy his own chances for election in 1964.
But starting with Richard Nixon's first term in 1969, even as Project Apollo was sprinting to a wildly successful manned lunar landing, the meddling began. The final three landings of the program, Apollo 18, 19, and 20, were canceled during Nixon's terms and NASA's manned program was reprioritized toward the development of the the Space Transportation System, which would itself transform over the course of its development into the Space Shuttle Program.
The ostensible goal of Shuttle was to lower the cost of launching payloads into orbit by making the launch vehicle reusable and the launch process routine. Reduced costs were the order of the day; even though NASA's Saturn V rocket was (and remains) the most successful heavy lift vehicle ever created, plans to continue its use were scrapped in favor of the shuttle. In 1974, Nixon departed in disgrace and Gerald Ford took office. Faced with a nation in the midst of an energy crisis and a severe economic recession, his continued support of the more "efficient" shuttle program was a foregone conclusion.
Ford's successor, Jimmy Carter, was dealt a bad hand at the end of the 1970s. Carter is one of the few presidents in the last 50 years to not really care much about American's manned space program. Under his leadership—or more correctly, during his period of noninvolvement—NASA tested the prototype orbiter Enterprise.
Ronald Reagan dabbled heavily in NASA's course, proposing Space Station Freedom as the first permanently manned orbiting facility and also pushing for commercial involvement in space travel. In keeping with his plans of defeating the "Evil Empire" of the Soviet Union, Reagan also favored more military space activity, most famously in the form of the Strategic Defense Initiative program, popularly known as "Star Wars" for its descriptions of laser-equipped satellites zapping Soviet missiles out of the sky in mid-flight. SDI had no small amount of NASA involvement, with shuttles and other launch vehicles ferrying cargoes (some classified) into orbit.
NASA was diverted again by George H.W. Bush. By the late 1980s, with NASA still recovering from the loss of Challenger and having been confined to sending shuttles to low earth orbit for years, the first President Bush proposed that the struggling agency take on a new mandate—the Space Exploration Initiative. President Bush outlined plans to send humans back to the Moon for permanent settlement and on to other planets as part of a multi-decade, long-range commitment. NASA contractors were thrilled, but it seemed clear even at the time that the plan was far too ambitious to survive past Bush's presidency.
It was. President Clinton realigned NASA's directives again, trimming many of the SEI-outlined goals and pushing for construction to start on the International Space Station, a scaled-back version of the United States' solo space station plans of the 1980s which would rely partly on funding contributed by other countries for completion. President Clinton's plans for NASA included prioritizing robotic exploration; "flags and footprints" missions like the return to the Moon and a manned mission to Mars were shelved.
After his election in 2000, George W. Bush put forth the boldest direction change for NASA since the 1960s, calling for the creation of an entirely new set of rockets and spacecraft under the umbrella of Project Constellation. Bush's plan would have seen a tremendous revitalization of NASA's manned space flight efforts, but suffered from a tragic lack of funding; eventually, in 2009, the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee (informally known as the "Augustine Committee" after its chairman, Norman Augustine) concluded that Project Constellation could be modified in several ways to produce a viable and successful set of missions, but the most desirable path forward would require an increase in overall agency funding by $3 billion through 2014, and then increases of 2.4 percent for each year after that.
Unfortunately for Constellation, at that point George W. Bush was no longer the president. The program had the double-whammy of being both underfunded and not really doing much for the current president's legacy; the bulk of Constellation was summarily cancelled after a single launch of one of the technology demonstration vehicles. Worse, President Obama didn't come out of the starting gate as a fan of manned exploration at all: in one of his first statements on the matter, he expressed his desire to increase educational funding by siphoning dollars directly from NASA over a five-year period.
Realizing that such a defunding of NASA could be political suicide in space- and vote-heavy states like California and Florida, President Obama has shifted NASA's direction by half-adopting and half-ignoring the Augustine Committee's findings and pushing for more commercially driven, manned space flight initiatives, with NASA focusing on "big picture" items from the Committee's Flexible Path set of recommendations (like a manned asteroid rendezvous). President Obama's plans for NASA are realistic, but largely uninspiring.
Space should always inspire us
That, really, is the key—"uninspiring" is a word that should never be used of a country's manned space program. NASA has of course done some very serious science during its existence, including placing an actual geologist on the Moon to study it firsthand, but the primary goal of NASA's lobbing astronauts into the heavens has always ultimately been political rather than scientific. The most important side effect of the manned program, though, has been the long tail of science and engineering interest it generated. Whether you love or hate his schtick, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson makes an insightful point when he observes that increased interest in all things scientific and futuristic tracked with the successes of Apollo and waned when the agency's direction began to drift.
Nothing—absolutely nothing—makes a kid's jaw drop like meeting an astronaut; kids build LEGO spaceships and plan to fly to the stars almost as a matter of course before their interest in science and math is beaten out of them by a stale educational system focused on rote memorization. All the educational funding in the world can't inspire someone to want to become an engineer like a video of someone standing on another world can. Diverting money from NASA to pay for textbooks is a shortsighted, stupid policy, which robs would-be engineers and mathematicians and scientists of the things which inspire them to become engineers and mathematicians and scientists in the first place.
NASA has historically been able to accomplish great things when the agency is given a direction and funding—and then left alone. The two most visible program successes NASA has had since its inception—Project Apollo's Moon landing and the creation of the Space Shuttle—were able to be completed largely because the sitting president didn't pay much attention to the agency. For many presidents, NASA is almost like an expensive toy that they can't resist poking, and unfortunately, poking the toy every four to eight years means that the toy can't get any work done. Romney's new space policy statement, which blasts President Obama's space policies without offering much in the way of concrete proposed action, is simply one more direction change waiting to happen. NASA will continue to flounder unless given a long-term plan that it can stick to.


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Ramirez hates DH, but it beats the alternative
Aramis Ramirez hates being the designated hitter.
He loves the action at third base and playing the entire game.
This business of batting and resting, batting and resting, is something for which he's never cared.
But it beats the alternative — spending a weekend on a minor league rehab assignment in Iowa or Tennessee.
Ramirez, who had been suffering from patellar tendinitis in his left knee, came off the disabled list Friday. The Cubs eased him back by inserting him as their designated hitter against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
He didn't exactly ease into things at the plate. In his first at-bat, Ramirez tagged White Sox left-hander Mark Buehrle's fourth pitch an estimated 371 feet into the right-field bullpen for a solo home run to give his team a 2-0 lead. The Cubs went on to a 5-1 victory.
Ramirez finished the day 2-for-3 with two RBI. He nudged his batting average up to .304.
Before going on the DL — he hurt the knee after taking a misstep while crossing first base while running out a grounder June 6 against Milwaukee — Ramirez had 21 RBI in his previous 26 games.
"We missed him while he was out," manager Lou Piniella said. "He got us a quick run in the first inning. He's a good hitter. Good hitters can sit out and then rise to the occasion like he did today."
Ramirez will likely be the designated hitter again today and Sunday. He might be back at third base Monday, when the Cubs host Colorado.
"This is only the second time I've been the DH and I don't really like it," Ramirez said. "But I know it's something good for me right now. It means I don't have to go on a rehab assignment. It would have really been tough to play third today, but I'm going to have to do it sooner or later. Starting next week, I'll be back there."
Ramirez dismissed the notion serving as a DH this weekend is similar to a rehab assignment.
"No. This is the real thing," he said. "I concentrate out there. I actually concentrate more because between innings I come back (into the clubhouse) and get some swings in and stay loose."
When Ramirez went down, he was the Cubs' leader in homers (13) and RBI (39). Alfonso Soriano hit five home runs when Ramirez was gone to close the gap for the team lead in that department.
After Soriano's leadoff homer Friday, he briefly tied Ramirez at 13 for the team lead. Minutes later, Ramirez regained the edge with his 14th.
Despite the big return, Ramirez is not completely comfortable at the plate.
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Stories of heroism, zest for life and a birthday celebration that turned tragic emerged as family and friends spoke of loved ones killed in Friday's mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater.
Almost all of the 12 victims were young - including a 6-year-old girl who had just learned to swim - with so much life ahead of them.
The cause of death in all cases is related to gunshot wounds, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office.
Jonathan T. Blunk, 26
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"We were going to have a family day," said wife Chantel Blunk.
Instead, she put away the dress her daughter had picked out to wear to the airport. "I tried to tell her we wouldn't see Daddy anymore, but that he would still love us and look over us."
The couple married in 2007 and separated in 2010, she said. The pair remained on good terms after Jonathan moved to Colorado. Blunk died shielding his girlfriend from the gunfire inside the theater.
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Every single time one of these tragic shootings occur the focus is on guns and gun violence. While I beleive we need to revisit the 2nd Amendment and get those horrible assult weapons off the streets I also believe we miss the opportunity to bring to the forefront yet another tragedy-and that is the horrific lack of services for the mentally ill. Funding continues to be cut from programs for those suffering from a brain disease meaning more of our mentally ill wander the streets, flood the ERs and become unmonitored and off their meds. We should be ashamed. We need a nationwide discussion of Mental Illness. We need to educate our young and go out into the streets and bring those poor souls back into the fold-with quality services so they can become well and become productive members of our society.
Anderson, What happened in Aurora is sad and tragic. I noticed you are refusing to say the alleged gunman's name on your program; however, have you thought about the possibility that he is suffering from mental illness? It is AWFUL what he did; however, he may have been extremely sick and may have been hearing voices. Those people should not have died as they did and I cannot imagine what their loved ones are feeling, but what about shedding some light on some people that are walking our streets and struggling as they are losing their grip on reality. I say this because my brother is schizophrenic and I watched him lose touch with reality. Luckily he eventually got on medication and now lives with my mother, but I can't imagine what would have happened to him if he had lived out in the world on his own with stresses of school and life and living without medication. Please try to look at these events from this angle.
James Holmes has a very "bug-eye" appearance, which does not seem present in his high school yearbook photo. The bug-eye effect is often associated with the medical condition known as hyperthyroidism, a hormone issue that can have various effects on behavior. This may deserve looking into.
A – with all due respect – I appreciate the wanting to not discuss the mans name who killed these people, however I watch you to see the news and analysis of the day. To omit his name is akin to trying to wash this away. What happened is tragic, how, who and what are all important and warrant attention, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us. His name, and his story is just as important – we as a society need to do the work that you purport to do for us. It is times like this when we omit all the FACTS based on emotions that the situation is not fully understood.
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